Trans Am 2016 Stop 5 : Big Sky, Montana Video

Trans Am 2016 Stop 6 : Big Sky, Montana Video

Words: Kyle Fischer

The Trans Am crew continued their adventure this week heading north to Big Sky, Montana. Adam and the rest of the Big Sky Terrain Park crew built an amazing course for our 50 stunt pilots to take flight on. Salomon and Giro rider, Nils Mindnich, put on his cowboy boots, and bolo tie to join us this week to present a special award for the best hand plant to Cole Karow. We were cleared for take off and the one hour jam session began. From there, only 25 men and five women made it to finals.

Andrew Riddle took home the Maverick Best Trick Award for pleasing the crowd with his boardslide to front flip over the down bar on the O’Neill transfer feature and just about every other feature on the course. The Crumb Cruncher award went to Will Gannon who nonchalantly claimed his award with a big smile and a possible broken wrist. Last but not least, the Giro Crash Landing Award went to Chris McElaney who popped his shoulder out of place. The inflight music was brought to us from the Giro Rep Shaun. Huge thank you to all the sponsors who made this weekend possible Salomon, Giro, O’Neill, and Big Sky.

Check out all the action from the Big Sky stop of the Trans Am in the video above and check out the full gallery and results here.

Results:

Women: 1. Anastasia Marcks 2. Sam Hendrickson 3. Ally Goebel

Men:

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1. Pat Mengler

2. Jake Haivala

3. Matt Rosenberg

Crumb Cruncher:

Will Gannon

Maverick Best Trick Award:

Andrew Riddle

Giro Crash Landing:

Chris McElaney

Nils Mindnich Handplant Award:

Cole Karow

Thanks to Big Sky Resort for hosting stop 5 of the 2016 TransWorld SNOWboarding TransAM tour! See you on February 27 for stop 6 at Mt. Seymour in British Colombia, Canada!